On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, george anzinger wrote: > Is it REALLY necessary to prevent them from seeing an > inconsistent state? Seems to me that in the total picture (i.e. > system wide) they will never see a consistent state, so why be > concerned with a small corner of the system. You're right. All we need to make sure of is that the address space we want to print info about doesn't go away while we're reading the stats ... (I think ... but we'll need to look at the procfs code in more detail) regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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